The Law Restated - The Roots of the Law (1915) (Hardcover)

William Taylor Hughes

Subtitle: The Roots of the Law, Where They Are Found and Best
Illustrated in Both the Old and the Latest Cases, the Great Maxims,
General Principles and Leading Cases, the Six Leading Subjects in
Miniature: Equity, Procedure, Contract, Crime, Tort and
Construction ... an Epitome of Great Legal Classics ... General
Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915
Original Publisher: The author Subjects: Law Law reports, digests,
etc Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original.
It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.
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than a million books for free. Excerpt: From Alterum Non Laedere
Embracing the great star and the rivulets Itelow. From the
fundamental immutahle principles of liherty and freedom, ignored by
Imperialism and Feudalism ( 21) and their offshoots, Commercialism
and its ally Empiricism. (See Feudal Lawyer.) Why the general
demurrer cannot he waived; the attitude of the state safeguarded
and vindicated hy the Preseriptive Constitution. The sourees of
attacks upon these pointed out and explained (see Literature; also
17, 21, 25, 26). The failure of the Feudal authors and their
followers (21); "Parliament is omnipotent," a misleading motto of
Feudalism which has wrecked the Codes and Practice Acts; also the
logic and philosophy of the law. The six leading suhjects of the
law -- Procedure, Equity, Contract, Crime, Tort, and Construction
-- are emhedded in the maxims of the Preseriptive Constitution.
These named and explained. A CHAPTER OF MAXIMS, GENERAL PRINCIPLES,
AND LEADING CASES Codes and Practice Acts discussed in the light of
these and the best Federal Cases that can he picked and cited. The
Rules of Res Adjudicata, Collateral Attack, "Due Process of Law,"
and Appellate Procedure, are shown to he paraphrases of the maxims.
Codes and Practice Acts: Their ...